Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2900 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 96797 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 17:04:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO quick.recoil.org) (194.70.3.133) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2003 17:04:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 17916 invoked by uid 10000); 27 Jun 2003 17:04:41 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:04:41 +0100 To: Sterling Hughes Cc: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20030627170436.GA11743@quick.recoil.org> References: <1056731138.27597.110.camel@hasele> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1056731138.27597.110.camel@hasele> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bundling libxml2 From: anil@recoil.org (Anil Madhavapeddy) On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:25:39PM -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: > > 2) Libxml2 may be installed everywhere, but the version we rely upon > isn't available everywhere. As witnessed by a message to the list by > michael, and a problem that someone else had over IRC. Its fine to > allow people to use external versions of libxml2, however, we need a > recent version to operate. For example, schema support is pretty > essential, as its becoming the new DTD format for XML (and is required > for proper SOAP support). If you need a recent version, why not just require it as part of the configure tests as usual? -- Anil Madhavapeddy http://anil.recoil.org University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk